xp upgrade

I have an Asus Eeepc PX1001, made to run Windows 7 Starter. I made it run linux, but now i wish to install Windows XP, an operating system I do not physically own. I have a disk image of Service Pack 2 from Microsoft themself, and SP3 Professional from a third party website. No matter what I...

Hi I'm an IT professional providing remote support to clients over a number of remote Audio interface PC systems built by me. These remote servers were built using XP Pro OEM discs. Due to Dropbox and Google Chrome ceasing support for XP I now find myself in the unfortunate position of having...

Hey! I've just installed windows 7 from dvd over windows xp.Installation is went fine and realy quick but on the last restart and first starting up of windows 7 screen become black and i cant do anything.The only thing that i see on the screen is flickering bios cursor and only command that...

It seems wonderful to me that Microsoft is unable to fix it's own problems. I bought this computer as a custom build brand new and picked it up sunday after delivering my brand new copy of Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit edition (upgrade from windows xp). I was eager and ready hearing wonderful...

I have just purchased some upgrades for my rig I now have the following new parts ASUS P7P55D Motherboard Intel I7-860 Processor 4 GB DDR 3 RAM 2 x 500 GB Seagate Baracuda HDD I added them in with my exisiting 2 x Nvidia 8800 GTX in SLI mode 2 x 250 GB Seagate Baracuda HHD I have a PSU...

I've read a lot of threads on this forum already by people who've had similar problems to this, but frustratingly enough none of the solutions that helped them seem to have fixed my issue. I have a new install of Windows 7 (OEM Home Premium). The PC formally was used for Windows XP. The...

Hello. I'm very new to Win7, and this is my first time here at this forum. I just upgraded from XP about a week ago. I was wondering if Win7 has a Documents and Settings folder similar to XP. I go to Windows Explorer>C:\>Users. When I double click on Users, I see three folders, one is...

I am doing a clean install, Windows 7 from XP. Like many here I can get to the completing installation point before the installation freezes. It seems to be going well then it re-boots, at this point the display is a smaller format and the cusor freezes and the installation haults. I...

Hey, I tried to search for this problem but could not find what I was looking for. I downloaded Windows 7 64 bit from my university via the MSDN AA program. I know that I need a clean install to upgrade this PC from XP to Windows 7. I downloaded the files and made the iso which I then burned...

hi there , i have went from XP to windows 7 and the difference is amense but i am having 1 problem just now and it is putting files ( nds games ) on to my mass storage device , when i go to my devices there is a mass storage device , when i click it and click browse files theres nothing except...

I'd planned on upgrading my motherboard from a Gigabyte 780G to a 785G model but just found out that if you use the upgrade version on W7, it has to be installed on the hard drive, you can't just put in your XP CD to prove you have a legitimate copy of XP. I was thinking of changing the...

After 4 years, my fully up-to-date XP install got completely messed up so given Win7 was so close, decided to try the RC rather than go back thru multiple XP updates/patches. Yes, I know it is an older laptop but it does have 1.25Gb RAM. I ran into the Intel GMA855 graphics lack of support but...

I'm about to lose it....so I'll make this quick as I can...Sound card drivers, no matter if they're for onboard or PCI will not install properly. This is the only thing I can't get to work on Win7. I upgraded from XP. Also, my keyboard won't work during bootup so I can't get into BIOS to disable...

If I'm reading things correctly, there will be no direct path to upgrade to Windows 7 from an existing XP system. Is this correct? Clearly new PCs will have Win7. Many Vista users may not follow the upgrade path, as their systems are fairly new to begin with. However it's the large bulk of...

I have an 8gb machine (memory) and it runs without a hitch. Were the problems cleared during the sp1? I have windows 7 on other and I find both to be very similar except for the taskbar and some networking features. Are these past vista complaints or is there a valid reason? Windows 7 is nice...

Hi everyone, Installed Windows 7 on new system over the weekend. Running on new Intel i7 920, 4gb DDR3, Geforce 9600GT. Having serious issues with Divx web player, when i open somthing to watch the web player will connect - buffer - play about 1 second of video then the whole browser will...